How to Get the Combination of NTFS-3g and Konqueror (as a file manager) to consume less CPU

[Michael Vasiliev]

The ntfs-3g driver is not exactly the optimal thing for NTFS, it consumes a 
lot of CPU, the commercial version of this driver lifts that limitation.

On Thursday 30 August 2012 21:43:21 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
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> 
> I have a laptop with the following specifications:
> 
> «
> I also have an Acer Aspire 5738DZG laptop with the following specs:
> 
>     Intel Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz. (x86-64).
>     ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4570 (r700)
>     15.6״ 3D HD LCD Screen.
>     3 GB Memory
>     320 GB Hard Disk Drive.
>     “DVD Super Multi DL drive”
>     Acer Nplify™ 802.11b/g/n.
> 
> »
> 
> Now it dual boots between Windows 7 x86-64 (which I hardly use) and
> Mageia Linux 2 x86-64. Since I have a lot of space in my Windows 7
> partition, I decided to use it to store many of my music files, so
> they get stored at /media/win_d/Music/mp3 , which has this as its
> /etc/fstab
> entry:
> 
> UUID=24A43690A4366488 /media/win_d ntfs-3g defaults,umask=022 0 0
> 
> Now, if I view this directory using a tab of KDE-4.8.x's Konqueror in
> file manager mode (in order to select and drag and drop files to my
> media player), I see
> ntfs-3g constantly consuming roughly 18% of my CPU, which I suspect
> causes the laptop to overheat.
> 
> I checked and ntfs-3g also consumes CPU if I run «ls -l
> /media/win_d/Music/mp3/» on the command line, so
> I guess that Konqueror constantly rescans that directory for detecting
> changes.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how I can prevent Konqueror from consuming a lot of
> CPU this way?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Shlomi Fish